October 2012

RAJAR stands for Radio Joint Audience Research and every three months every single radio station in the UK is sent the results of the previous three months research, today was that day. RAJAR day at any radio station is always a very nervous time and during my time I’ve enjoyed the highs and lows 56 times! Today's RAJAR fell in to the very happy category, we added a further 5,000 listeners.

Have you have ever wondered how many people actually tune in to KL.FM each week?

Follow these simple steps to get some idea of how many people tune in:

The best way to describe it would be to grab the BT telephone directory for King's Lynn & West Norfolk.

Do the same for Wisbech.

Get the Swaffham directory too.

Then get a highlighter pen.

Then on EVERY single page of EVERY telephone book highlight EVERY 3rd person on EVERY page.

That is pretty much the amount of people listening to KL.FM, not including those who are ex-directory of course!

What an amazing day! Thanks to everyone who listened and helped KL.FM help King's Lynn Police Station. We have been completely blown away by the generosity of everyone.

Please read my previous blog entry for full details, but thanks to KL.FM listeners children who find themselves at the Police Station through no fault of their own, when their carer or parents have done something wrong and have nowhere else to go, will thanks to you feel a little bit more at home, a little bit more at ease and less intimidated by their surroundings.

On Tuesday 20th November I delivered the donations below to King's Lynn Police Station who were overwhlemed by the sheer amount of goodies I delivered in our Storm from Duff Morgan Citroen. The family room really is tiny and didn't feel very welcoming for a child. But now thanks to you it's much better. Hear what PCSO Daina Rayfield had to say about the donations and how the room is used.

Here are all the wonderful people that have made this possible and their amazing donations.

Over the past few months at KL.FM we've been helping in the community to change peoples lives with amongst many things our very special volunteer days. These are days where everyone at KL.FM has put tools down and spent the whole day, on and off air, helping others. In July we painted St James Lodge and provided help for the homeless who are temporarily staying with Broadland Housing. Thanks to your generosity we gave them lots of furniture and our staff gave the place a complete spruce up after we painted the many corridors inside. Most recently we helped the British Heart Foundation increase their donations by more than 7 times what they would normally receive.Today with your help along with the team at KL.FM I want to make a difference for families with young children at King's Lynn Police station. There are loads of reasons why youngsters are brought in and usually it isn’t their fault. They may have run away from carers or parents, or perhaps during the course of police patrols they are found in premises that are very unsuitable, so the decision is made to bring the child to a place of safety. Sometimes the parents are brought in for questioning and the child has to come with them because there is no one else at home to look after them.

The room where the children are looked after needs to be a friendly place as the whole idea of going to a strange building with people you don’t know when you are little is daunting, with your help we can make the experience a little better!

Here is a list of what I'll be looking for today, if you can help with any of the following please Tweet me at @simonrowe or call 01553 692192.

You may remember Adam & I went to Twickenham recently to watch our first game of Rugby ever. We knew nothing about the sport until that day, but we have been practicing hard ever since as the video below will prove!

A massive thank you to West Norfolk Rugby who are actually much much much better than that! Click here to learn more about them and find out how you can join them.

If you'd like to support them one Saturday here are their upcoming HOME fixtures.

On Saturday the team from KL.FM spent the afternoon smiling, pouting and posing for the camera, noting new for Adam Newstead, whilst having our latest set of promotional photographs taken courtesy of Rebel Heart Photography.

My wife chose this picture has her favourite.

My wife chose the picture on the right has her favourite. But the team at KL.FM thought I should use the one on the left.

Have we made the right choice or should I of put a paper bag over my head?

Simon destroys the computer that sent him 40 “Soundcheck” survey reminders overnight. If you received a barrage of emails this morning too we would like to apologise and as you will see we have made sure nothing like this will ever happen again.

I have to hold up my hand and say I've never seen a single episode of Family Guy, that's despite everyone raving about it, the show winning lots of awards and always being on. This weekend I intend to change that but for those of you who do watch it I think you'll enjoy this.

Every month we receive hundreds of letters nominating deserving people in West Norfolk & Wisbech for a "Random act of kindness" This is your chance to say "Thank you" to someone who has been an amazing help to you, someone who does so much for the community, or someone who you think deserves some recognition.

King's Lynn put on a very convincing performance against Romulus as they climbed to second place in the league with their 3-0 win. It took just 20 seconds for the Mighty Linnets to take the lead in this weekend’s Evo Stick 1st Division South League game at the Walks.

The goal is below, well almost!

With thanks to Gavin at the EDP and Greg at the Lynn News here is the after match interview with manager Gary Setchell.

Over the next SIX months I am embarking on a journey to discover what it takes to become a Foster carer, what kind of person becomes one, what you need to do, how you can do it, why fostering is so rewarding, what you can expect and the difference you can make to a cared for child.

If you have ever considered taking on this amazing role in your life, if you are about to embark on this amazing and life changing opportunity to help someone else or are just interested, please check visit my podcast page and learn from experts who recruit, train and look after Foster Carers plus Foster Carers themselves along with looked after children who will be sharing their experience and knowledge with me.

Above is just one of the random tweets I receive on a daily basis at KLFM. I mentioned this on air yesterday and Adam threatened to call HR and put in a complaint, but today his attitude had changed! Much to the disbelief of the team Adam allowed me to fulfil the request above. Adam Newstead in is pants is below!!!

To be honest it’s not often I'm lost for words but I didn't know what to say at our weekly meeting when it came to announcing who the staff at KL.FM had voted "Team Member of the Year". Our MD read out the nominations and as mine continued to come with reasons why I got slightly redder with each one!

Fingers crossed this bottle of bubbly, my prize, will be opened to celebrate something very exciting that is about to happen in my life. I think a nice Chinese Take-Away and this to wash it down will be the order of the day if all goes my way.

I should also say well done to my KL.FM buddy Clare Harper or Harper 7 as I call her who also had the same amount of votes as me! x

Thanks to the brilliant team here at KL.FM especially the ones who picked me, lol. (-: